Plans are in progress for a charity to fund its own satellite as a first stage in its objective to bring the entire world on-line.
The first stage is to bring a portion of the third world on line, using the old Terrestar-1 satellite whose owner has just gone bankrupt. This coupled with a modem which is due to be developed by the company will provide a basic ISP service to the area covered by the satellites footprint. Once up and running they plan on expanding this to cover the entire world.
A very ambitious project which will bring a few funding questions on the actual computers themselves and what bandwidth will be available. Most of our sites now are very graphics intensive. I assume they will only be accessing specific sites with data such as The Soil and Health Library, Appropedia and Hesperian.
I wonder how this will fit in with the 2 tier internet we have been hearing about lately. Will this make a third tier? If not who will fund the infrastructure beyond the satellite?
Good idea though. Very ambitious.
Bringing the world on-line
Plans are in progress for a charity to fund its own satellite as a first stage in its objective to bring the entire world on-line.
The first stage is to bring a portion of the third world on line, using the old Terrestar-1 satellite whose owner has just gone bankrupt. This coupled with a modem which is due to be developed by the company will provide a basic ISP service to the area covered by the satellites footprint. Once up and running they plan on expanding this to cover the entire world.
A very ambitious project which will bring a few funding questions on the actual computers themselves and what bandwidth will be available. Most of our sites now are very graphics intensive. I assume they will only be accessing specific sites with data such as The Soil and Health Library, Appropedia and Hesperian.
I wonder how this will fit in with the 2 tier internet we have been hearing about lately. Will this make a third tier? If not who will fund the infrastructure beyond the satellite?
Good idea though. Very ambitious.